Monday, July 27, 2009

I made these pictures yesterday. Although there is no obvious common denominator, if nothing else, there seems to me to be a feeling that the images all struggle against the natural order.It was not my intention to make pictures like this when I set out nor did I edit with this in mind. Call it post rationalization but that's the way the way it is.On another tack I read a quote from Isaac Stern on a Yo-Yo Ma CD, Stern is quoted, "in music it's not about the notes, it's what happens in between the notes." Perhaps this also applies to photographs?

About Me

My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
http://harveybenge.com/
email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz